Artist:
N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
Westward Ho!, endpaper illustration
Alternate Title(s):Pirates Carrying Chests; The Spanish Booty
Medium: Oil on canvas
Date: 1920
Dimensions:
27 15/16 × 41 7/8 in. (71 × 106.4 cm)
Collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum
Gift of Linda Bean Folkers, 1998
Accession number: SUPP2000.274
Research Number: NCW: 274
InscribedUpper right: W (encircled)
ProvenanceThe artist; Mrs. N. C. Wyeth to 1956; Knoedler Galleries, New York, NY, 1956 - ca. 1966; Private collection; (Mr. James Fowler); Mr. and Mrs. John H. Epstein, Grayslake, IL, 1974; descended in family; (Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, DE, 1992); Collection of John Edward Dell; (Somerville Manning Gallery, ca. 1995 - 1998)
Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, PA, 1921; New York, NY, 1957, no. 106, as "Pirates Carrying Chests"; Lubbock, TX, 1959, no. 34; Southampton, NY, 1966, no numbers; Greenville, SC, 1974, no. 91, as "The Spanish Booty"; Chadds Ford, PA, 1976(1); Greenville, DE, 1995; Portland, ME, 2000, no numbers, p. 57; Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, "The Wyeths, America's Artists," Jan. 15-April 17, 2011;
References
Richard Layton, "Inventory of Paintings in the Wyeth Studio, 1950, " unpublished, Wyeth Family Archives, p. 9; Douglas Allen and Douglas Allen, Jr., N. C. Wyeth, The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Murals (New York: Crown Publishers, 1972), p. 209; John Edward Dell, ed., Visions of Adventure, N. C. Wyeth and the Brandywine Artists (New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000), illustration in color p. 48Christine B. Podmaniczky, N. C. Wyeth, A Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings (London: Scala, 2008), I.826, p. 408-409
Curatorial RemarksIn preparation for this commission, the artist read and annotated an edition published by Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1907 (Brandywine River Museum library # 22481). According to Scribner's records, all paintings in the set were the property of the artist and returned to him on Aug. 19, 1921. Scribner's paid Wyeth $3,500 for the commission.
A 1950 inventory of the paintings in Wyeth's studio describes the work as having been mounted on panel by that date. There is no record of when the panel was removed.
A 1950 inventory of the paintings in Wyeth's studio describes the work as having been mounted on panel by that date. There is no record of when the panel was removed.
Image Source for printed Catalogue Raisonne:digital photography directly from painting